Word: formers
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This Thursday, the Advocate will sponsor a reading with Richard Wilbur, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate. Wilbur will speak at Hilles Library...
Colleagues and former students remembered Levin for a lifetime of urging his students to challenge authority...
...hardest part of his recent batch of reform proposals: keeping IOC members from making financially tempting visits to cities looking to host the games. Many reluctant members grumbled that such a ban implied they couldn't be trusted, although one might think that the haul that several of their former colleagues extorted out of the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee - which included silver, scholarships for their kids, guns, cowboy hats, skis and, reportedly, even call girls - would have done a good job of that already. In the end, Samaranch prevailed: Although the move had been opposed by nearly half...
...guitar on "If You're Feeling Sinister" and then go to the library and check out "Sloop John B." from Pet Sounds. Such musical similarities can't be a coincidence, considering the thematic overlap between, for example, Pet Sounds and If You're Feeling Sinister. In the former, a boy goes from youthful abandon to mature disenchantment over the course of the album; in the latter those themes are visited in each song...
Never let it be said that Janet Reno can't make up her mind. After an interminable interagency debate, the attorney general Friday indicted former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on espionage charges. What's surprising isn't the indictment - after all, we've known the story for nine months now - it's the time it took. So why did it take Reno so long to come to a decision? She was caught between the FBI, which was urging her to charge Lee with mishandling classified information and violating the Atomic Energy Act, and her own prosecutors...